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File renaming utilities
When working with foreign language (learning) digital media files electronic repositories, typical problems include having to:
- adding metadata information to the filename
- handling of foreign language characters in filenames across operating and file systems, including code pages
A good file renaming utility can work wonders in such situations.
I have been using the excellent BRU (Bulk rename utility) for a while, and always liked its flexibility – which is apparent from in its (initially somewhat intimidating) UI:
Now I found to my surprise, and confirmed with the help of the support forum, that the foreign language character support is lacking from BRU’s Regular Expression implementation.
Enter Renamer, another file renaming utility, which features a stable and beta version, pdf documentation and a wiki.
As you can see in the following screenshot, Renamer makes it possible, using Unicode character codes in Regular Expressions, to replace e.g. all Mandarin characters in a filename.
Renamer also has in-built support for common tasks like cleaning up filenames by stripping common tags, transliterating foreign alphabets or adding file numbering (serializing).
Both utilities are free and highly recommended, but also see TBA:part II for limitations.
UPDATE:
Configuring UNCC staff (MS-Exchange 10) email on Android 4.1.2
May come in useful not only during initial setup… I had trouble sorting out the webpages addressing different versions, and translating the picture-less instructions, an so have others when they come to the LRC for help. May this help some.
Our Drupal now allows Add to Calendar links.
- Neat: Click on the calendar icon at the end of the date line:
- When prompted, Click open (which will stat your default file association for ICS files, likely MS-Outlook):
- if necessary, add a suitable reminder, and click””save&close”
- Your appointment, with location, will be put in your calendar and come alive when you need the reminder(and where, if you connect your other, home and mobile devices to MS-Exchange):
- But as of yet, not everybody seems to be using this handy facility (I find myself manually copying over info into manually created appointments).
- Unfortunately, this is still only a static ICS file, not a subscription which would be automatically updated in your calendar if the originator/organizer changes the schedule.
Why meeting organizers should cancel meetings from their calendar and not by email
- Because cancelling from the calendar like in video2 here sends the meeting participants not only a (0)message, which includes a handy “Remove from calendar” button,
- but also – in case they fail to see the message – a (1) “Cancelled” indicator on their calendars,
- while third parties who want to schedule a meeting with the meeting participants, see those participants (including an Rooms that “participate”) as (2) free/available during the time slot of the cancelled meeting,
- as you can see in this example:
Windows Live Writer can once again load more than 500 WordPress posts without “Invalid Server Response”
Evidence:
Version (recently updated – thank you! This bug bugged me a lot, I am chatty):Version 2012 (Build 16.4.3522.110). Not sure it is not server-related, but consider upgrading on download.live.com if you still see this error on the metaWeblog.getRecentPosts from XmlRpc server: 
How to resolve error “Speech Recognition could not start because the language configuration is not supported”
- Problem: I have seen this error
, - Root cause: when the display language and speech language do not match (the latter is set to default to the former in the LRC, but it seems they can get out of sync), as you can witness here (English display does not match Chinese speech recognition):
- Solution: Follow the instructions in the error message, i.e.
- Access the Speech recognition control panel here:
- Then change the speech recognition language to match the display language, like I am doing here:
- Quick workaround: Not sure about how quick, but in the LRC, you can also just try and restart the computers, they are “frozen” to a default configuration in display and speech recognition language (English/English – matches).
Have patience if you see “No free/busy information could be retrieved” on Room mailbox
When trying to schedule a room, I am now seeing this: 
When ctrl-right clicking: 
, I get this as my connection status:
Becomes available after a long while:
What can I tell my users how long is the wait currently usually is?
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